Ive just had a womens health placement in a public hospital and in the last 4 weeks I saw a variety of patients from different socio- economic groups. A number of the patients I saw were also very young. After reading their notes I just assumed that because they were so young that they would not be interested in a physio student coming to give them 25 mins of post natal education. Many of them also had complex social histories so I thought physio would be the last thing on their minds.
I went into their rooms just expecting them to tell me that they couldn’t be bothered listening so to just leave the physio info sheets there. However almost all of my younger patients were the ones who were most keen to listen and asked the most questions. It didn’t occur to me beforehand that these are the patients that are probably keen to learn the most because they haven’t been taught anything like this before. It was nice to have patients that were actually interested in what you were saying and it showed me that you shouldn’t judge patients just on their notes because they can suprise you
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